While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.
DOROTHEA LANGETo know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that’s one kind of person, but the fellow who’s hiding behind a tree and hoping you don’t see him is the fellow that you’d better find out why.
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Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.
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To know ahead of time what you’re looking for means you’re then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.
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To me, beauty appears when one feels deeply, and art is an act of total attention.
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go in over your head, not just up to your neck.
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It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
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I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
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Photography today appears to be in a state of flight… The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his Sundays into a series of unnatural poses.
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To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion… the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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It is no accident that the photographer becomes a photographer any more than the lion tamer becomes a lion tamer.
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I trust my instincts. I don’t distrust them. They haven’t led me astray. It’s when I’ve made up my mind to be efficient that is when I have gone wrong.
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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.
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